The GAZ-AA was a truck produced at the Gorki Auto Plant from 1932 to 1938, as the company's first truck produced under the ''GAZ'' brand name.

History

In 1929 the

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made an agreement with the

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to produce the Ford Model A and Model AA vehicles at an automotive plant built in Nijni Novgorod. Initially, 10

Ford Model AA Ford Model AA is a truck from Ford. As the Model T and TT became obsolete and needed to be replaced, Henry Ford began initial designs on the Model A and Model AA in 1926. Basic chassis layout was done rapidly and mechanical development wa ...

trucks were built at the plant,>> under the ''NAZ'' name (Nijni Novgorod Automobilni Zavod). Soviet engineers prepared their own mechanical blueprints for production, for the truck to be made by more thick steel and to have an upgraded suspension system. During the following years, the plant was renamed to ''Gorki Automobilni Zavod'' after

Maxim Gorki Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (russian: Макси́м Го́рький, link=no), was a Russian writer and sociali ...

, leading the index of the trucks to be changed to ''GAZ-AA''. By 1932, the GAZ-AA started to get

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and by that time around 60 trucks were built at the plant daily from knock-down kits sent by

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.> Soon the assembly of the

GAZ-A The GAZ-A is a passenger car that was mass-produced by GAZ from 1932 until 1936. It was the first passenger car to be produced in the Soviet Union and is a near-exact copy of the Ford Model A from 1930. To the local population, the car was nicknam ...

passenger vehicles started,> that were based on the Ford Model A and were also built from knock-down kits that were imported to the

. By that time GAZ-AA trucks made the majority of trucks used by the

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.> Several modifications of the GAZ-AA trucks started getting produced, including

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(''410''),5> semi-trucks (''MS''),

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(''PMG-1'')1> and

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(''905'').8> By 1938, nearly 1 million of these trucks had been produced and sold. By that time a modernized variant of the GAZ-AA trucks, under the ''

GAZ-MM The GAZ-MM is a medium-duty truck ( Class 4- Class 5) produced at the Gorki Auto Plant from 1938 to 1948, and then at the Ulyanovsky Auto Plant, up to 1956. The truck was a modernized variant of the GAZ-AA truck, but using the engine from the G ...

'' index started getting produced, with the engine from the

GAZ-M1 The GAZ M1 (“Эмка“/”Emka”) was a passenger car produced by the Soviet automaker GAZ between 1936 and 1943, at their plant in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia). Systematic production ended in 1941, but the factory was able to con ...

, that boosted the vehicle's power to 50 hp, with the compression ratio increased to 4.6, with the vehicle's maximum speed being 80 km / h.9>8>

Variants

GAZ-AAA The GAZ-AAA was a truck produced by GAZ. From 1936 to 1943, 37,373 units were built. Like the GAZ-AA and GAZ-MM it was largely based on the Ford Model AA Ford Model AA is a truck from Ford. As the Model T and TT became obsolete and needed ...

: * GAZ-410:

dump truck A dump truck, known also as a dumping truck, dump trailer, dumper trailer, dump lorry or dumper lorry or a dumper for short, is used for transporting materials (such as dirt, gravel, or demolition waste) for construction as well as coal. A typi ...

* BA-27M: military vehicle using GAZ-AA assemblies * GAZ-42: version with a

gas generator A gas generator is a device for generating gas. A gas generator may create gas by a chemical reaction or from a solid or liquid source, when storing a pressurized gas is undesirable or impractical. The term often refers to a device that uses a ...

* GAZ-60:

half-track A half-track is a civilian or military vehicle with regular wheels at the front for steering and continuous tracks at the back to propel the vehicle and carry most of the load. The purpose of this combination is to produce a vehicle with the cro ...

version made for the

* PMG-1:

fire truck A fire engine (also known in some places as a fire truck or fire lorry) is a road vehicle (usually a truck) that functions as a firefighting apparatus. The primary purposes of a fire engine include transporting firefighters and water to an i ...

* GAZ-905: tractor version * GAZ-03-30: bus variant *

GAZ-55 The GAZ-55 (russian: ГАЗ-55) was a Soviet military ambulance developed in the 1930s by Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod (GAZ) and was used by the USSR during the Second World War. It was based on the GAZ-AA model. With only 9130 models ever being p ...

: ambulance variant * GAZ-MS:

log truck A logging truck or timber lorry is a large truck used to carry logs. Some have integrated flatbeds, some are discrete tractor units, and some are configured to spread a load between the tractor unit and a dollied trailer pulled behind it. Ofte ...

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*{{Commonscatinline GAZ Group trucks 1930s cars

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